Tag: Lewis Melville

SSW: Great English Stories (ed) Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves (1930) – Part V

Time to wind up the book. The last grouping begins with Ernest Bramah's The Malignity of the Depraved Ming-Shu Rears its Offensive Head which is an extract from his book Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat. Ming-Shu, the villain to the hero Kai Lung, attacks his village and kidnaps his wife and sets off with her. … Continue reading SSW: Great English Stories (ed) Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves (1930) – Part V →

SSW: Great English Stories (ed) Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves (1930) – Part IV

On to the last part of the book: the authors who saw both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. There are 39 authors in this section, so I have divided it into two parts. We begin with Ouida, the pen-name of Anglo-French Louis de la Ramee. Her story Cecil Castlemaine's Cage takes us back to … Continue reading SSW: Great English Stories (ed) Lewis Melville and Reginald Hargreaves (1930) – Part IV →

SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) Reginald Hargreaves and Lewis Melville (1930) – Part III

Last Year, I started this mammoth book and even posted about it. Everything was proceeding to plan when I ran across a novelette by Benjamin Disraeli. Seriously, what is a 70+ pages work doing in an anthology of short stories? On top of that, the satire failed to work for me. The long and short … Continue reading SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) Reginald Hargreaves and Lewis Melville (1930) – Part III →

SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) Reginald Hargreaves & Lewis Melville (1930) – Part II

It is Wednesday and time for me to move on to the second review of the book, this time looking at the authors whose lives straddled the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We begin with Sir Walter Scott. In The Tapestried Chamber, a General in Lord Cornawallis' army returning home after the American revolution (yes we … Continue reading SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) Reginald Hargreaves & Lewis Melville (1930) – Part II →

SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) by Reginald Hargreaves and Lewis Melville (1930) – Part I

Great English Short Stories, a mammoth book, over 1000 pages long and comprising of more than 80 stories, has stories in the English language, arranged chronologically. It is difficult to write just one post on it, so I have decided to break it into parts. As the exact year of publication for stories is not … Continue reading SSW: Great English Short Stories (ed) by Reginald Hargreaves and Lewis Melville (1930) – Part I →